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Message: [QUOTE="ucmiami2, post: 5335869, member: 13062"] For the majority of those streaks and stats, the big east was either the strongest or second strongest conference in the country. Rutgers, ND, Louisville and a few others help establish that. When the BE dissolved and we joined the American that went away, but we continued to rank very high in the SOS numbers based on a very tough OOC. Only two of the undefeated seasons we had were during that period and one more before that period when the competition in WCBB as a whole was really spotty so 'conference strength' really didn't much matter. And the reality isn't that different today - seldom do conferences actually have two elite teams and almost never three - they may have more mid-tier teams which are often the teams that 'trip up' winning streaks but what stands out in Uconns record under Geno in how infrequently Uconn has lost to non-elite teams. Their winning streak against unranked teams, and their streak of not having a two game losing streak both point to that consistency as much as the undefeated streaks and home win streaks. (I believe they also have some enviable road win streaks but am too lazy to do the research.) Back to conference strength - I wonder how many times the various conferences have had 2 teams at the FF and in the championship game - I know the Big East did that often - ND and Uconn, Rutgers and Uconn, Louisville and Uconn, and Syracuse and Uconn. For most of Tara's career she was the lone Pac representative, same for Kim and the Big12, Brenda had her one memorable battle with Duke and NC from the ACC. Pat at TN and LSU had a strong stretch, and LSU under Kim and Dawn are a new dynamic so the SEC has been similar to the BE. And it is noticiable that BE defectors have been frequent FF participants lead by ND but with cameos by both Louisville and Syracuse. And not included above is that final four streak, and record appearances to go with the record NCs. [/QUOTE]

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